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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   Blackberries, perhaps all soft berries, can spoil at temperatures barely 
above freezing.

   Last year, when the home freezer filled up and I didn't have time to do 
a run to the locker plant, I kept the blackberry harvest in the walk-in 
cooler.  The temperature was set to be maintained between 32 and 38 degrees. 
According to what the 'experts' say, that temperature range should allow for 
safe storage but not so.  All of the berries were packed in gallon freezer 
bags, 3 pounds each.  I was to learn that my blackberries (Fort Kent King) 
were safe at that temperature for a maximum of three days.  Those bags that 
were refrigerated longer blew up like balloons and we lost over 60 pounds of 
blackberries.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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